Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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PROGRAM
Sunday, December 6, 2009
and skills in gender, peace building and development programming. She holds a Master's degree as well as a post-graduate diploma in gender and development, both from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Footy Training Clinic - Offsite Youth Workshop
Robert 'Dipper' DiPierdomenico
Nick Hatzoglou
Offsite
Offsite Program
This is your chance to venture on to the training ground of one of Melbourne's Australian Football League (AFL) teams, tour the facilities and learn the basic skills of Aussie Rules Football with current players. This event is facilitated by Multicultural Development Officers from the AFL.
Robert 'Dipper' DiPierdomenico is a National Auskick Ambassador and former professional Australian Rules footballer. In 1986 he received the Brownlow Medal and he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2007. He coached the Israeli-Palestinian Peres Team for Peace in the 2008 Australian Football International Cup.
Nick Hatzoglou is the Multicultural Project Coordinator for the Australian Football League. Nick's key role with the Australian Football League is to bring Australian Football opportunities closer to people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
OPENSPACE 4:30-6:00pm
The Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Universal Sufism
Nuria Daly
Shaikha Safa Hull
Room 102
Religious or Spiritual Observance
The Sufi Movement in Australia represents the Sufi Message of spiritual liberty as brought to the West by Hazrat Inayat Khan in the early years of the 20th century. It is a message that is both profound and simple. This session is an opportunity to experience some of the concepts and teaching methods used on this path: gently tuning and refining our personalities, our interaction with others and the world that sustains us, and discovering a worldview that rests on and is constantly refined by love, harmony and beauty. The practices we are offering will include music, story, meditation, chanting (wazifa) and remembrance (zikr). There will also be an open forum for questions. All are most welcome to drop in and share this offering with us.
Nuria Irene Daly is a Shaikha in the Sufi Movement and is the National Representative of the International Sufi Movement in Australia. The Sufi Movement follows the teachings of Hazrat inayat Khan, who brought to the West the concept of Universal Sufism Nuria has led a Sufi group in Melbourne for many years and has led retreats and meditations in Australia.
4:30-6:00pm OPEN SPACE
Shaikha Safa Hull is Co-National Representative of the Sufi Movement in New Zealand, and has been leading Sufi groups and spiritual retreats for over 20 years. She is an active member of the International Sufi Movement and has presented a number of public talks on Sufism both in Australia and New Zealand. Safa is also a senior clergy member, or Siraja, of the religious activity of the International Sufi Movement, known as Universal Worship.
Edmonton's Experience of Reconciliation with Indigenous People
Lewis Cardinal
Rick Chapman James Scott Alvin Dixon Room 103
Panel Discussion
Restitution does not automatically guarantee reconciliation, nor does it assure redemption. However, restored relationships with Indigenous People will never occur without the intentional efforts of those who seek the peace and welfare of all. The Interchurch Interfaith Committee of Edmonton Presbytery, United Church of Canada, will share stories of our current ecumenical efforts in Edmonton, Canada to pursue reconciliation and right relations with Indigenous Peoples through programs of study. reflection and celebration with Aboriginal (Indigenous] spiritual leaders. Specific details and outcomes of events will be presented for both information and critique in the hope that we will encourage and learn from similar experiences worldwide. Related to our presentation will be accounts of the national United Church of Canada's efforts to explore, develop and nurture just and respectful relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people across our church'; and also reports regarding the founding and progress of the Canadian government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Lewis Cardinal is an Aboriginal educator and community leader in Edmonton.
Rick Chapman has been working with Aboriginal people in the inner city of Edmonton for the last three years at the Inner City Pastoral Ministry. Reverend James Scott was ordained by the United Church of Canada. His career has focused on social justice, peacemaking and conflict resolution. He directed the Coalition Against the Return of the Death Penalty and animated educational programs for the Church Council on Justice and Corrections. Currently James brings his healing and reconciliation experience to his role as a United Church national staff member for Indian Residential Schools.
Alvin Dixon is an Indigenous leader in the United Church of Canada and has been deeply involved with the Residential School settlement process.
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